source: vendor/bash/3.1-p17/examples/functions/gethtml

#
# get_html -- get a web page from a remote server
#
# Original Author: Jeff Korn <jlk@cs.princeton.edu>
# Modified for bash by Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu>
#
# Example: get_html cnswww.cns.cwru.edu /~chet/ | more

get_html()
{
        local host port

        (($# < 2)) && {
                echo "usage: $FUNCNAME hostname path [port]" >&2
                return 1
        }

        host="$1"
        port="${3:-80}"

        exec 3<> /dev/tcp/$host/$port || {
                echo "$FUNCNAME: $host/$port: cannot connect" >&2
                exit 1
        }

        echo -e "GET $2 HTTP/1.0\n" >&3

        cat <&3

        exec 3<&-

        return 0
}

get_html "$@"